I wish for you and your family, A Simple Christmas. By Simple Christmas I mean that you find a way to get past the anxiety of traffic, crowded stores, dinner guests who arrive late and cause the food to get cold, missed shipments, and sensory overload and have some quiet reflective moments to remember what its all about. My book A Simple Christmas is a compilation of stories of what a true simple Christmas should be, starting with the not so Hollywood-like birth of Jesus. The story of a teenage girl, probably not more than 14 years old, pregnant, unmarried, and going into labor in a town where she didnt know a soul. Accompanied by a teenage boy probably not more than 16 years old, who wasnt the father of the baby, but had agreed to marry the girl. Alone and scared in an unfamiliar place, she is unable to find suitable lodging and was at last accommodated in all that was left, a little cave cut into the stone where animals were kept. Here, in the filth and stench of farm animals, she gave birth. She placed the newborn in the feeding trough where just minutes before animals had been eating. Hardly a royal entrance one would expect for one who that very moment was King of Kings. His entry was simple. Shockingly so in fact. No choirs, just animals being shushed away from their feed trough so as not to disturb a baby who was just born. His birth was like any other in that there was pain and blood. It would be hard to imagine that such a simple event would change the world. Thats still how God works. He takes the simple, the unlikely, the scorned, the forgotten, the poor, the fearful, the exasperated and bursts into their world to give hope. He could change the circumstances to give them wealth or great pageantry, but instead He enters the world where they are, not where they want to be. There is no place so low that God wont show up. In fact, its in just such a place that He does show up. That is the message of the Simple Christmas. And I hope you and your family find it this year. I hope you let God find YOU this year. Merry Christmas. May it be SIMPLE. And May God Bless Each and Everyone of You!
Posted on: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:48:07 +0000
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